[Paraview] Extending ParaView unsing existing VTK sources anffilters.

[Andrew Maclean]

Thanks,
   This looks to be helpful. At least it will get me started!

Andrew


-----Original Message-----
From: Mattijs Janssens [mailto:m.janssens at opencfd.co.uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:01
Cc: paraview at paraview.org
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Extending ParaView unsing existing VTK sources
anffilters.

Hi Andrew,

these are the xml files we use for our reader module. This is perhaps 
not what you are looking for (since it is about a reader, not a filter).

Maybe there is a section in the paraview book?

Andrew Maclean wrote:
> It is not clear from the ParaView manual how to extend ParaView using
> existing VTK sources and filters.
> 
> Do I:
> 1) Create a new directory somewhere and define PV_INTERFACE_PATH to point
to
> it?
> 2) Create a file called myfilters.xml with entries in it like:
>    <ModuleInterfaces>
>    <Module name="" ...
> ...
>    </Module>
>    </ModuleInterfaces>
> 
> I have looked at:
> http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2003-September/000290.html
> 
> But I think this is more for when you create your own code.
> 
> Has anyone any pointers on how to do this for existing VTK code such as 
> vtkParametricMobius (a source) or vtkQuantizePolyData (a filter)?
> 
> If I manage to get the vtk sources or filters into ParaView will static
> linking still work?
> 
> What about parallelization? Some filters are not parallelizable - will
this
> affect ParaView?
> 
> Thanks for any comments.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
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Mattijs

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